Wednesday, July 4, 2018

2 Samuel 2

פקד seemed to require another gloss (but it didn't). It has 17 glosses counted in KJV by BLB. Not to mention the 28 under miscellaneous. I have at the moment, 6: visit (107) conscript (105) office (31) entrust (30)
precept (24) census (1). Any of these that have a count of 1, I revisit to see if it is justified as a unique reading caused by the artifice of translating.

And Joab, child of Tseruyah, and the servants of David went out and met together over the blessing pool of Gibeon, as one.
And these sat by the blessing pool from this point of view and these by the blessing from that point of view.

And Abner said to him, You push off to your right hand or to your left, and grasp for yourself one from the lads, then take for yourself his gear.
But Ashael did not consent to turn aside from following him.

But he would not turn aside. And Abner struck him with the butt end of the spear in the fifth rib, and the spear came out from behind him, and he fell there and he died under him.
And it happened that all that enter the place where Ashael fell and died, that they stand still.

And Abner called to Joab and said, Will sword devour in perpetuity? Do you not know that it will be bitterness in the aftermath?
And how long will you fail to say to the people to turn from following their kin?